I tend to turn off camera-based lane-keeping systems, but the Crossland X’s reactivates with every restart. The first time it beeps, it’s frustrating, but then what good is a safety system that you can disable permanently?

The driver’s seat is comfortable if a bit flat but it offers lots of vertical base height adjustment, so you can sit with your scalp either close to the headlining with a good view all round, or much lower and feel more like you’re in a conventional five-door hatchback.

The upshot is an interior that’s a mish-mash of fonts, grains and finishes, and that has a handful of quietly classy and stylish touches but just as many hard, shiny plastics. The overall impression of the cabin is agreeable and inoffensive, with a good ergonomic layout and instruments that are visible and readable – and you can’t say all of that about a 2008.

Whereas the Crossland X’s sibling models effectively come with their own data connection, you have to supply your own here.

Vauxhall gives you a 7.0in IntelliLink colour touchscreen with DAB radio, Apple and Android smartphone mirroring and voice control as standard. You can upgrade to an 8.0in set-up fitted with satellite navigation and an extra USB input point for £710.

A premium six-speaker audio system (with a sub-woofer) and wireless phone charging are additional options.

The navigation system’s mapping is better than that found in plenty of Peugeots and Citroëns and destinations are particularly easy to set. Bluetooth call functionality was hit and miss in our test car, but Apple CarPlay worked well.